Spille, Jente L Grunwald, Martin Martin, Sven Mueller, Stephanie M
Published in
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
Spontaneous face touching (sFST) is an ubiquitous behavior that occurs in people of all ages and all sexes, up to 800 times a day. Despite their high frequency, they have rarely been considered as an independent phenomenon. Recently, sFST have sparked scientific interest since they contribute to self-infection with pathogens. This raises questions ...
Emmerzaal, Tim L Nijkamp, Gerben Veldic, Marin Rahman, Shamima Andreazza, Ana Cristina Morava, Eva Rodenburg, Richard J Kozicz, Tamas
Published in
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
Individuals with mitochondrial disease often present with psychopathological comorbidity, and mitochondrial dysfunction has been proposed as the underlying pathobiology in various psychiatric disorders. Several studies have suggested that medications used to treat neuropsychiatric disorders could directly influence mitochondrial function. This revi...
Manns, Martina Basbasse, Yasmin El Freund, Nadja Ocklenburg, Sebastian
Published in
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
Mice and rats are among the most common animal model species in both basic and clinical neuroscience. Despite their ubiquity as model species, many clinically relevant brain-behaviour relationships in rodents are not well understood. In particular, data on hemispheric asymmetries, an important organizational principle in the vertebrate brain, are c...
Dominguini, Diogo Steckert, Amanda V Michels, Monique Spies, Mariana B Ritter, Cristiane Barichello, Tatiana Thompson, Jonathan Dal-Pizzol, Felipe
Published in
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
Microglia are involved in many dynamic processes in the central nervous system (CNS) including the development of inflammatory processes and neuromodulation. Several sedative, analgesic or anaesthetic drugs, such as opioids, ∝2-adrenergic agonists, ketamine, benzodiazepines and propofol can cause both neuroprotective and harmful effects on the brai...
Kulaga, Stephanie S Miller, Christopher W T
Published in
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
The historical association between respiratory infections and neuropsychiatric symptoms dates back centuries, with more recent literature highlighting a link between viral infections and schizophrenia. Maternal influenza infection during pregnancy has been associated with the development of schizophrenia in offspring. Viral infections in neonates, ...
Radua, Joaquim
Published in
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
Ludyga, Sebastian Pühse, Uwe Gerber, Markus Kamijo, Keita
Published in
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
Exercise is an integral part of children's lives, and research in educational settings has found that regular engagement promises improvements in executive function (i.e. top-down control of goal-directed behavior). Based on recent advances in understanding the moderators and the neurocognitive mechanisms of these effects, we highlight a potential ...
Worrell, Stephen D Gould, Thomas J
Published in
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
Excessive alcohol consumption is involved in 1/10 of deaths of U.S. working-age adults and costs the country around $250,000,000 yearly. While Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) pathology is complex and involves multiple neurotransmitter systems, changes in synaptic plasticity, hippocampal neurogenesis, and neural connectivity have been implicated in the b...
Alexander, Laith Jelen, Luke A Mehta, Mitul A Young, Allan H
Published in
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
The subdivisions of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) - including subgenual, perigenual and dorsal zones - are implicated in the etiology, pathogenesis and treatment of major depression. We review an emerging body of evidence which suggests that changes in ACC activity are critically important in mediating the antidepressant effects of ketamine, ...
Conca, F Borsa, V M Cappa, S F Catricalà, E
Published in
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
The neuroscientific study of conceptual representation has largely focused on categories of concrete entities (biological entities, tools…), while abstract knowledge has been less extensively investigated. The possible presence of a categorical organization of abstract knowledge is a debated issue. An embodied cognition framework predicts an organi...
